Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1887-06-25
IT WAS DONE BY A SLEEPING-CAR PORTER-RASY
WHEN YoU KNOW HOW.

IT WAS DONE BY A SLEEPING-CAR PoRTER-RAsY
WHEN YoU KNOW HOW.
From the Chicago Herald.
"There Is one sleeping porter in this country
who'll not die poor, If thrift and smartness count
| for nything," said a gentleman who has just re-
| turned from trip to California. s'Soon after we
left Omaha the porter OF our car began to talk
base ball and to let US all know that he was a
considering his station, but nobody objected, for
1t is always best on cross-country trip to keep on
the good sioe OF porter Among the passengers
were several gentlemen who take little interest
| In base ball, and So along in the afternoon when
the porter told about the sport some passengers
had had the week before, and suggested that Jus
to kill time We initiate their example, the gem
| men maxim up baseball pool at s. guess, de
gemman gueSsin' clOstist to de way de TO- league
games come out to take de pot there were seven
| responses. After the money had been paid into
the hands OF one who selected to act as stake
holder, and the subscribers had written out their
gueSSeS and signed their names to them the porter
| humbly asked permission TO come In. Though we
all thought the chap was displaying considerable
freshness so long as he had suggested the scheme
| in which we had begun to take a good deal OF in
terest there was no one to object. So the porter
holder. S " A''N ''''' '''' O''' Will '''' ''AAe'
| The next day we got paper at Cheyenne and
| you can imagine how surprised we were when we
named the four winners, and that man the porter.
| The way that fellow grinned when he put the $40
| away in his pocket made me feel suspicious, and
| So later on when another pool Of the same kind
| was proposed decided to Stay out and keep an
eye on the porter. About 8 O'Clock the train
stopped at little station, and saw the porter
| making break for The telegraph Office. When he
came out he had message, which he was reading
eagerly: He sat down in the smoking car and
scribled something on piece OF paper, consulting
his message as he did So and then walked ba OK to
| the sleeping car, remark1ng that he'd give the
| gemmen chance to git pat OF de stun back
and deposited with the stake holder s. bill and
the slip OF paper Id seen him writing on in the
| smoking car.
"Havlng found out what his game was, I took
| the stakeholder one side and said to him: This
| darkey Is buncoing US. II is now after o'clock.
| In New York and Boston 1t is after 5. The games
| have been played. We haven't been thinking OF
| that, but this darkey has. He just received a
| message telling him which won, and he has named
| these clubs, and expects to take our money, Just
| as he did yesterday
$50 the stakeholder and took out all the
| gueSseS, changed them all to read the same clubs
| that the porter had named, and put them back.
| Then we posted the other fellows. Next day when
| the returns were opened, and 1t was found that
| each gueoser had named the four winners, 1t was
worth five times s. apiece to us to the express
| sions which chased each other up and down that
| Shrewd darkeyS face"